Otto and the Flying Twins ****UNC PROOF****

Haptie, Charlotte

ISBN 10: 0340855932 / ISBN 13: 9780340855935

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2002

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UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Book in Nr FINE condition, crease bottom corner rear cover. First novel.Charlotte Haptie's magical Otto and the Flying Twins is a lyrical tale of magical secrets and mystical mayhem in a world where human beings are intent on quashing anything and anybody they see as different or strange.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Otto and the Flying Twins ****UNC PROOF****
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340855932
• ISBN 13: 9780340855935
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Otto is our endearingly bewildered young hero whose world suddenly becomes very odd. Going with his father, Albert, to the FireBox Launderette, Albert is called to help with 'failing machinery' and is seen by Otto calming a purple dragon in the back room. When his baby sisters start to fly, his grandmother becomes a unicorn, and street waifs fly along the street at night on magic carpets pursued by the new Normal Police force, life becomes odder and scarier. Otto learns - often riotously - that his city and his family are very special indeed.

Here the last remaining magical people - the Karmidee - are living as an underclass of pedlars and tinkers, known as the 'magicos'. But legend tells of a King, birthmarked with a butterfly, who will save the Karmidee from extinction. Particularly from the new Minister for Modernisation, Councillor Elfina Crink. With her Impossible List and Normal Police, she is determined to stamp out the Karmidee spirit. As repression intensifies, the Karmidee and their powers go underground, but their magic bursts out in the most unexpected places as a bid for freedom, with surprising, hilarious and extraordinary results.

About the Author

Charlotte Haptie has wanted to be a writer since she was seven, but has had a number of more sensible jobs in between. Her first literary success and only publication before Otto and the Flying Twins was the sale of an idea for a Valentine's card. She was brought up in Buckinghamshire and Merseyside, and now lives in Scotland.